I am looking for two highly motivated computational evolutionary biologists with excellent programming and computing skills to join my team at the University of Nottingham. Both positions are fully funded for two years with an option to extend pending grant success. Both positions are computational in nature and require strong programming, molecular evolution and genome…
On the 1st of August Ann had her PhD viva and did a wonderful job of bringing her hard work to life for her panel of examiners. Ann’s PhD was primarily computational, involving sequence similarity network analysis of primate genomes, the identification of gene fusions, and the analysis of their transcription and translation profiles using…
We are very excited and proud to announce that Ray has successfully defended his PhD on Friday 11th August 2017. Dr Ray Moran graduated from DCU on the 2nd November 2017. Here is a photo of our very proud looking and newest Doctor !;-)
On May 21st 2017 I was officially elected as Fellow of the Linnean Society. I am very excited to receive this honour and look forward to the ceremony. “Founded in 1788, the Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus… It is the oldest active biological society… As it moves into its third…
Our latest article we discuss some recent work from Thijis Ettema’s group on discovery of a new member of the Asgard group of Archaea. The Asgard “superphylum” is a group of archaea that provide us with important information about the origin of eukaryotes. The image from our news and views article shown here summarises the relationship between Bacteria…
Save the date: 21st June for the launch of Leeds Omics. You are invited to the launch of Leeds Omics on Tuesday morning (21st June) at 10.00am. Please register for this event using the following link: http://leedsomicslaunch.eventbrite.co.uk Leeds Omics is a cross faculty initiative between the Faculty of Biological Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine…
by Chris Bunting, Senior Press Officer The family tree of the largest group of mammals—those that nourish their young with placentas—divided later than scientists previously thought, according to a new study. The findings show that one of the great mammal lineages—the xenartha group, which includes armadillos, sloths and anteaters and is today found only in…
I had the tremendous pleasure of teaching a very talented and motivated bunch of students on an EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation) funded course. The course was delivered in the amazon jungle city of Iquitos Peru, the largest jungle city in the world unconnected by road to the rest of the world. It was…
More support for Atlantogenata. This week an international collaborative effort has tackled a major challenge in phylogenetics – the interrelationships amongst placental mammals. The paper has just been published in Genome Biology and Evolution (please click here to see the paper). In work led by Dr James Tarver and Dr Davide Pisani (with contributions from…
